If you flick a flat stone toward a pond at just the right angle, it skips across in a series of smooth jumps. Inch-long cricket frogs also seem to skitter over the surface of water with physics ...
Cricket frogs are pretty small and would fit on the thumb of an adult human's hand, yet they possess extraordinarily fast motion. To record how they were traveling over the water, the team set up ...
“Skittering is not actually a well-defined word for this behavior – one naturalist used it to describe a ‘jumping on water’ behavior in frogs in 1949, and since then, it’s been used for ...
Researchers led by Jake Socha discovered that cricket frogs in Virginia and North Carolina use unique 'fast-moving belly flops' to jump multiple times on water, a behavior called 'skittering'.
The individual sounds to identify are: ball bouncing; ball splashing in water; frog jumping and swimming in the water; 'ribbet' sounds; croaking. Once upon a watery time… If possible have a frog ...